Treaks (punk rock / Nantes) sort ‘EGO’, un premier album brutal et insolent, sur fond de second degré et d’une folie douce contagieuse qui suscite une adhésion totale. Chronique et écoute intégrale : https://www.mowno.com/disques/treaks-ego/ 
#treaks #ego #postpunk #punkrock #nantes
The Hijacking of Spirituality (Part 1): How Religion Replaced the Truth - Before religion became a system, there was something real.
https://youtu.be/5k7Yk6WdTfg
#spiritualawakening #organizedreligion #divineconnection #mysticism #truthseeker #ego
The Great Work: How Alchemy Unlocks the Path from Ego to Enlightenment in All Religions
https://youtu.be/tTHGvSoefs0
#alchemy #ego #enlightenment #spiritualawakening #greatwork #innertransformation #truthseeker
A quotation from Josh Billings
How menny people thare iz whoze importance depends entirely upon the size ov their hotel bills.
[How many people there are whose importance depends entirely upon the size of their hotel bills.]
Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/76159/
Ah yes, the 2025 #AI #Index Report, where 
Stanford wows us with a dazzling array of #buzzwords and acronyms to show just how stellar their #research is—assuming you can stay awake through their endless self-praise. 
Who needs caffeine when you have Stanford's ego? 
https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report #Stanford #AI #Ego #SelfPraise #HackerNews #ngated
A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
POSITIVE, adj. Mistaken at the top of one’s voice.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Positive,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/1077/
Ces chars d'assaut de ville, qui sont si écologiques...
https://loma.ml/display/373ebf56-1067-f0cd-cfed-d66586922115
No one, whether poet or orator, ever yet thought anyone else better than himself. This is the case even with bad ones.
[Nemo umquam neque poëta neque orator fuit, qui quemquam meliorem quam se arbitraretur. Hoc etiam malis contingit.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 14, Letter 20, sec. 3 (14.20.3) (44 BC) [tr. Shuckburgh (1900), # 724]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #self-image #cicero #author #best #creativity #ego #orator #poet #pride #selfappreciation #superiority #writer #writing
Maybe the quintessential American is Elon Musk | @destiny
The Relevance of Max Stirner for Anarcho Communists by Matty Thomas
#Anarchy #Anarchism #Socialist #Socialism #Ego #Egoism #Property #History #Politics #Economics #Philosophy
Present At The Creation, Alfonso X, 1221–1284
#AlfonsoX, #Creation, #Ego, #Hubris, #Humor, #Jokes, #politics, #Sarcasm
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1989-07-15)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/4102/
A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
We refuse praise from a desire to be praised twice.
[Le refus des louanges est un désir d’être loué deux fois.]
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶149 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
Orange painted man doesn't give a shit about Lesotho, some water off the coast of Louisiana, Crimea, Panama, immigrants, or even fentanyl.
All he cares about is looking tough. His extremely needy ego demands that he boast of being the greatest. Everything real is just collateral damage.
A quotation from Bertrand Russell
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/757…
Musk made a huge mistake by relying solely on cameras for self-driving Teslas, deeming LIDAR is for losers. Now, the “losers” are ahead of Tesla and Musk keeps doubling down on his mistake.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91299741/tesla-self-driving-mark-rober
#Tesla #SelfDriving #Autonomous #EVs #Vehicles #Cars #Musk #ElonMusk #Ego
Certainly they did not pretend to be sleepy, they were sleepy; and that was a danger, for the moment they popped off, down they fell. The awful thing was that Peter thought this funny.
“There he goes again!” he would cry gleefully, as Michael suddenly dropped like a stone.
“Save him, save him!” cried Wendy, looking with horror at the cruel sea far below. Eventually Peter would dive through the air, and catch Michael just before he could strike the sea, and it was lovely the way he did it; but he always waited till the last moment, and you felt it was his cleverness that interested him and not the saving of human life. Also he was fond of variety, and the sport that engrossed him one moment would suddenly cease to engage him, so there was always the possibility that the next time you fell he would let you go.
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
Peter and Wendy, ch. 4 “The Flight” (1911)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/barrie-james/75721/
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